Metadata: Verden Department of Public Prosecution (until 1978)
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Lower Saxony State Archive Stade
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 21680 Stade
- Phone number:
- +49 4141 66060-0
- Email:
- Stade@nla.niedersachsen.de
- Reference number:
- Rep. 171A Verden
- Title:
- Verden Department of Public Prosecution (until 1978)
- Title (official language):
- Staatsanwaltschaft Verden (bis 1978)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Verden Department of Public Prosecution
- Date(s):
- 1852/1978
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- extent unknown
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes material on the investigation of a former district captain of the gendarmerie for murder in the Radom district (Poland), specifically: Special volume A – article “Battle and annihilation of the Jewish population in the Radom district during the Hitler occupation“ („Kampf und Vernichtung der jüdischen Bevölkerung im Radomer Distrikt während der Hitler-Okkupation“) and “Hitler's labour camps for Jews in the district of Radom“ („Die Hitlerschen Arbeitslager für Juden im Distrikt Radom“) with statistics about liquidations etc. (extensive, no. 2178 and others); criminal case against a former chief government council (Oberregierungsrat) and SS Sturmbannführer for the murder of three Polish people and one Jew in Kutno (Poland) (extensive, no. 1658 and others); investigation of a citizen of Hamburg on suspicion of the murder of several Jews in Rejowiec/district of Chelm in Poland (extensive, no. 867 and others); criminal case against several people for murder of Jews and Polish people (extensive, no. 1665 and others); and more cases regarding the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- When the Landdrostei Stade was founded as an administrative district within the Kingdom of Hanover in 1823, it included three historical territories: the Duchy of Bremen, the Duchy of Verden and the “Land Hadeln”. After Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1867, the Landdrostei continued to exist until 1885, when it was reorganised as the new governmental (or administrative) district of Stade. In 1937, the city of Cuxhaven became part of this administrative district and therefore part of the province of Hanover. Other minor territorial changes also took place in the 1920s and 1930s. After the Second World War the district was part of the British zone of occupation and later became part of the state of Lower Saxony within the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1978, following administrative changes in the districts of Lower Saxony during which the Stade district lost larger parts of its territory, the remaining parts were incorporated into the administrative district of Lüneburg. The Lüneburg district was dissolved in 2004 like all other administrative districts of the same level (Regierungsbezirke) in Lower Saxony.
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- This collection is not visible on the online finding aid Arcinsys for standard users. Access to most files is restricted for a certain period of time.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Internal finding aid: “Rep. 171A Verden“ (not publicly available); thematical finding aid: "SFB 13. Judaica (NS-Zeit). Übersicht über die Bestände des Niedersächsischen Staatsarchivs Stade zur Judenverfolgung in der NS-Zeit. Erstellt im Auftrag der Holocaust-Gedenk- und Forschungsstätte Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel) Jürgen Rosebrock (Hamburg), Mai 1998".
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2019